told me, he said, you re just a child, and he said i am the district attorney of etowah county. a news conference nelson showed reporters her yearbook complete with a message from roy moore reading, quote, to a sweeter more beautiful girl i could not say merry christmas. moore s accusers are defending themselves as they re called liars. leigh corfman says she wrote a letter to moore. she wrote, where does your immorality end? i demand you stop calling me a liar and attacking my character. i am telling the truth, and you should have the decency to admit it and apologize. joyce vance is a former attorney, university of alabama law professor. what is it like down there right now? well, alabama certainly is not enjoying its moment in the public spotlight. this is in many ways a painful election. it s as painful for republicans
there s guilt and blame on both sides. it does seem that way. republicans and democrats. that s the way i feel. it shouldn t make it a right or left issue. but they are. people are talking about degrees of who s right and who s wrong, moore is worse than franken. it doesn t matter. all this behavior is disgusting. we have to teach our children better than this. in al franken s case, there s that horrible photo as well that made the rounds of his hands on a woman s breasts while she s sleeping. to me, it was just the epitome of disgusting and yet he doesn t want to resign. he thinks he can regain the trust of his drifenlgt what are the chances of that? he doesn t want to resign. he thinks that was some kind of a joke. i don t know how you can think that s funny. he should resign. if we re going to hold the standard to moore and others and say they should resign, we should hold the same standard to franken. it s not just one woman. we have four new women he s apologizing about.
credit give credibility to those. to moore, yes. the accusers, we should always give them the benefit of the doubt, put the facts on the table, have a discussion in the case of an ethics investigation and see what is truthful, what is not. but always, always, we must start with the basic assumption that the allegations are correct. you simply can t wave them aside. further more, we have to be held accountable. we re 435 members of congress, 100 senators and a president. we have a very, very unique and special obligation to be ethical and to have high ethical standards, to speak the truth and to engage in ethical behavior in every way. unfortunately we have a president that wakes up at 5:30
san francisco s city attorney calling the decision a victory for the american people and the rule of law. the department of justice blasting the ruling, accusing court of exceeding its authority and promising to take action. the white house won t come right out and say it, but it wants roy moore to be the next senator from alabama. two top officials making it pretty clear that if it means having moore s vote for the tax bill and other trump agenda items, they ll take him and all his baggage. press secretary sarah sanders says the president is leaving it up to alabama voters to sort through the sexual allegations moore faces, but she admitted the republican r next to moore s name is a factor. obviously, the president wants people both in the house and the senate that support his agenda. that remark came after counselor kellyanne conway made it clear the white house does not want to lose a seat to the democrats. doug jones in alabama, folks, don t be fooled. he ll be a vote aga
.and open up a world of possibilities. save 20% for the holidays at ancestrydna.com. talking about roy moore and lindsay gram today. i met a lot of people in the mall. if you get kicked out of there that s a bad situation to find yourself in. he was on a no fly list for a mall which for me is stunning. i d like to see the president join your calls tal be up to me. senator gram they gram referring to moore allegedly being on a list at the mall. back to the panel. david, politically speaking, the